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writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.

the entire body of writings of a specific language, period, people, etc.: the literature of England.

the writings dealing with a particular subject: the literature of ornithology.

the profession of a writer or author.

literary work or production.

any kind of printed material, as circulars, leaflets, or handbills: literature describing company products.

Archaic . polite learning; literary culture; appreciation of letters and books.

Origin of literature

Synonym study for literature, other words from literature.

  • pre·lit·er·a·ture, noun

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How to use literature in a sentence

If you want to understand the flamboyant family of objects that make up our solar system—from puny, sputtering comets to tremendous, ringed planets—you could start by immersing yourself in the technical terms that fill the scientific literature .

Poway Unified anticipates bringing forward two new courses – ethnic studies and ethnic literature – to the school board for review, said Christine Paik, a spokeswoman for the district.

The book she completed after that trip, Coming of Age in Samoa, published in 1928, would be hailed as a classic in the literature on sexuality and adolescence.

He also told Chemistry World he envisages the robots eventually being able to analyze the scientific literature to better guide their experiments.

Research also suggests that reading literature may help increase empathy and understanding of others’ experiences, potentially spurring better real-world behavior.

The research literature , too, asks these questions, and not without reason.

She wanted to know what happened over five years, or even 10, but the scientific literature had little to offer.

The religion shaped all facets of life: art, medicine, literature , and even dynastic politics.

Speaking of the literature you love, the Bloomsbury writers crop up in your collection repeatedly.

literature in the 14th century, Strohm points out, was an intimate, interactive affair.

All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."

There cannot be many persons in the world who keep up with the whole range of musical literature as he does.

In early English literature there was at one time a tendency to ascribe to Solomon various proverbs not in the Bible.

He was deeply versed in Saxon literature and published a work on the antiquity of the English church.

Such unromantic literature as Acts of Parliament had not, it may be supposed, up to this, formed part of my mental pabulum.

British Dictionary definitions for literature

/ ( ˈlɪtərɪtʃə , ˈlɪtrɪ- ) /

written material such as poetry, novels, essays, etc, esp works of imagination characterized by excellence of style and expression and by themes of general or enduring interest

the body of written work of a particular culture or people : Scandinavian literature

written or printed matter of a particular type or on a particular subject : scientific literature ; the literature of the violin

printed material giving a particular type of information : sales literature

the art or profession of a writer

obsolete learning

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Writing the Body in Literature and Culture

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Until recently, the physical body has been a much-neglected subject of contemporary women's writing, whether fictional or autobiographical. Theoretical writings that emerged from contemporary feminist debates in the latter part of the twentieth century tended to privilege more psychoanalytic or abstract considerations of the corporeal. Feminist thought's differentiation of sex and gender, and consequent drive to dissociate biology from determinism and to emphasise the power of the rational female mind may further account for the only recent emergence of the body as a subject worthy of critical and literary analysis. How can language capture the physiological changes and states undergone by the body? Is the 'unspeakable' nature of certain physiological experiences compounded by their unspoken nature, their taboo status? This module seeks to redress that imbalance by focusing more on the materiality of bodies (principally female or non-binary) as they evolve through a series of life events or experiences: abortion; motherhood; transition and ageing. It locates the body in different epochs and national contexts in order to examine the relationship between subjectivity, corporeality and identity more broadly. The content of this module will also be supplemented with audiovisual and filmic representations of the body as part of its secondary corpus. All texts on this module are available in translation.

Assessment details

one 4000-word essay (100%)

Educational aims & objectives

  • To introduce students to the literary, historicaland cultural contexts of twentieth-century and twenty-first century women's writing
  • To deepen students' knowledge of different genres dealing withrepresentations of the body: theory, fiction(including the short story), autobiography, and the essay
  • To introduce students to (or to consolidate their prior knowledge of) theories of corporeality and the body in relation to women's writing in particular

Learning outcomes

By the end of this module, students will:

  • demonstrate sound knowledge of the various contexts of the twentieth- and twenty-first century writing dealing with representations of the body
  • be able to analyse a generically diverse selection of texts dealing with corporeality by placing them in their context and by adopting different theoretical approaches
  • have developed a series of transferable skills (essay writing, textual analysis, individual or group presentations)
  • have gained an insight into the specificities of writing the body from a female and feminist

Teaching pattern

two hour seminar, weekly

Suggested reading list

Marie Darrieussecq, Truismes (Paris: POL, 1996) Marie Darrieussecq, Pig Tales , trans. by Linda Coverdale (London: Faber and Faber, 1997)

Diamela Eltit, Jamás el fuego nunca (Cáceres: Editorial Periférica, 2013) Diamela Eltit, Never Did the Fire , trans. by Daniel Hahn (Edinburgh: Charco Press, 2022)

Annie Ernaux, Les Armoires Vides (Paris: Gallimard, 1974). Annie Ernaux, Cleaned Out , trans. by Carol Sanders (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1996).

Annie Ernaux, L'évenement (Paris: Gallimard, 2001) (French original). Annie Ernaux, Happening , trans. by Tanya Leslie (New York: Seven Stories, 2019).

Jenny Erpenbeck, Die Geschichte vom alten Kind (Frankfurt am Main: btb, 2001). Jenny Erpenbeck, 'The Old Child', in The Old Child and the Book of Words , trans. by Susan Bernofsky (London: Portobello, 2008).

Ariana Harwicz, Mátate, amor (San José, Costa Rica: Ediciones Lanzallamas, 2012) Ariana Harwicz, Die, My Love, trans. by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff (Edinburgh: Charco Press, 2017)

Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Ausser sich (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2017). Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Beside Myself , trans. by Imogen Taylor (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2019).

Subject areas

  • Arts & Humanities
  • Languages, Literatures and Cultures

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King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.

Please note that modules with a practical component will be capped due to educational requirements, which may mean that we cannot guarantee a place to all students who elect to study this module.

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Example sentences body of literature

The new research adds to a growing body of literature surrounding music’s influence on insect behavior.
Writing smuggled out of prisons or done after the writer's release has left its indelible mark on the body of literature .
The body of literature included popular fiction, text books and academic works.
It was seen as a great advance both in results and method, and rendered obsolete a large body of literature .
Its main goals are to situate the current study within the body of literature and to provide context for the particular reader.

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Jiménez also told the Blade the morgue did not properly store her sister’s body.

She feared that confinement was taking its toll on her body.

However the strength of these independent bodies completely depends on who is put into these positions and ultimately the decisions for those lie within the office of the president.

In the human body, thousands of different players make the meaningful whole possible.

The potential advantage of a vaccine using an attenuated live strain is that the body will encounter—and be able to react to—the entire virus.

And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.

In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.

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My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.

“I have to think her body type played a role,” said Rachel Greenblatt, a Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Harvard University.

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I’m a fair sacrifice. Steel tools pass in and out of me / like parishioners through the threshold / of a heavy door.  My flesh holds too much / that I cannot see.

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Omotara james releases her debut poetry collection: 'song of my softening'.

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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to poet and author Omotara James about her collection which explores self-love in a Black, fat body. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a Lambda literary fellow.

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The body is an unmarked grave. With this bold, evocative declaration, poet Omotara James opens her debut book, "Song Of My Softening." She's the daughter of Nigerian and Trinidadian immigrants born in Britain and raised mainly in the United States. Tender, beautiful, stark, painful - these are just a few words that come to mind when reading this collection. James is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a Lambda Literary fellow, and she joins me now to talk about her collection of poems. Omotara James, welcome to the program.

OMOTARA JAMES: Thanks for having me.

FADEL: I want to start with the title, "Song Of My Softening." And the way the book is structured. It feels a bit like a journey through your life, from adolescence, as a Black queer woman. Is that what it is? It feels almost journal-like in moments.

JAMES: It is definitely a reflection of how I respond to the world through the lens of my understanding, through my life experiences. But what the work of the book is is to transform my experiences into art. And when I titled the book "Song Of My Softening," that's because it takes a lot more strength to be vulnerable than it does to be hard.

FADEL: Yeah.

JAMES: It takes courage, and the poem lends itself to softness because the poem begins in the body, "Song of My Softening" is a love song to interiority and to anyone who has faced the challenges of life and done their best.

FADEL: I love that. It's harder to be vulnerable than it is to be hard. That's so true. And there is a lot of pain in the poetry, but like you said, triumph and celebration. I'm thinking of some of your poems, like "Morbid Subtraction," where you take kind of what many people would think of as an insult, and you flip it on its head. If you could talk about exploring the words that way and that poem in particular.

JAMES: Yeah. You know, so much of my book is about working with what you have, and so much of what I have been dealt has been love, but also, it's been violation. It's been a lot of prejudice. When it comes to fatness, it's something that we don't really see in art and media rendered by the person who is fat. Fat people are usually objectified. We are pathologized, problematized, and really, we have so much value to add to the world. So what I aim to do is to show and render the truth of my experience in a way that speaks back to the oppression of the experience.

FADEL: Do you have the book with you by any chance?

JAMES: Oh, I do.

FADEL: OK, great. I was wondering if you could read "Heaven Be A Sturdy Chair."

JAMES: Yes. (Reading) Heaven be a sturdy chair. When I show up to the reading, it's not to talk to you. I'm cruising for stability. A pound of fat is three times larger than muscle. Fat demands space, describes it. Fat belts a show tune, plus an R&B, plus a ballad at karaoke. My fat never goes home alone. Think about your last moment of pleasure. Multiply it by three.

FADEL: I mean, in this poem, fat is the hero, and I love it. Was this a declaration?

JAMES: An it's a declaration of not allowing someone else's definition of you be the gesture of your life. Before I can think about what it means to be fat, I need to explore how it feels. And that's what I use language and breath in my poetry to do. And then I can proclaim it. Also, I wanted to say that the truth about living in a body that there's all this pejorative chatter around...

JAMES: ...Is that shame is a real part of the experience. One of my favorite poetry teachers, Jericho Brown, says something about shame that I've never forgotten, which is when we engage with shame, we are believing the lies that people tell us about ourselves. And there is nothing more worth the risk of telling your story than to eradicate that shame, to speak back to it and begin to claim radical love.

FADEL: It's like a big therapy session. I mean, really. I mean, 'cause I think so many people are going to be listening to you, and I'm listening to you and reading the poetry and having my own moments of reclamation, you know? I mean, as a woman, as somebody who grows up not skinny in a world that tells you you need to be small; you need to look this way; you need to be lighter; you need to be - I just - how did you get to a point where you said, OK, radical reclamation; I'm writing it all down; I'm sharing it all?

JAMES: The way I got to it was through the work of the poets who have come before me. When I write in my poem "Bodies Like Oceans," I say, I clawed my way out of your clean love. And what I mean by that is I had to imagine a future in which I could exist and in which I could be free. Poetry has been a tool of my own liberation because it was modeled to me that way through exemplar poets - exemplar Black poets, exemplar queer poets. And that is the discourse that exists between my poems and theirs.

FADEL: Omotara James, congratulations on your book, and thank you for that message.

JAMES: Thank you so much. It's been an honor.

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FADEL: That was Omotara James. Her poetry collection is called "Song Of My Softening."

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How to use Copilot Pro to write, edit, and analyze your Word documents

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Microsoft's Copilot Pro AI offers a few benefits for $20 per month. But the most helpful one is the AI-powered integration with the different Microsoft 365 apps. For those of you who use Microsoft Word, for instance, Copilot Pro can help you write and revise your text, provide summaries of your documents, and answer questions about any document.

First, you'll need a subscription to either Microsoft 365 Personal or Family . Priced at $70 per year, the Personal edition is geared for one individual signed into as many as five devices. At $100 per year, the Family edition is aimed at up to six people on as many as five devices. The core apps in the suite include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote.

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Second, you'll need the subscription to Copilot Pro if you don't already have one. To sign up, head to the Copilot Pro website . Click the Get Copilot Pro button. Confirm the subscription and the payment. The next time you use Copilot on the website, in Windows, or with the mobile apps, the Pro version will be in effect.

How to use Copilot Pro in Word

1. open word.

Launch Microsoft Word and open a blank document. Let's say you need help writing a particular type of document and want Copilot to create a draft. 

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A small "Draft with Copilot" window appears on the screen. If you don't see it, click the tiny "Draft with Copilot icon in the left margin."

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2. Submit your request

At the text field in the window, type a description of the text you need and click the "Generate" button.

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3. Review the response and your options

Copilot generates and displays its response. After reading the response, you're presented with a few different options.

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4. Keep, regenerate, or remove the draft

If you like the draft, click "Keep it." The draft is then inserted into your document where you can work with it. If you don't like the draft, click the "Regenerate" button, and a new draft is created. 

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If you'd prefer to throw out the entire draft and start from scratch, click the trash can icon.

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Keep, regenerate, or remove the draft.

5. Alter the draft

Alternatively, you can try to modify the draft by typing a specific request in the text field, such as "Make it more formal," "Make it shorter," or "Make it more casual."

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Alter the draft.

6. Review the different versions

If you opt to regenerate the draft, you can switch between the different versions by clicking the left or right arrow next to the number. You can then choose to keep the draft you prefer.

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7. Revise existing text

Copilot will also help you fine-tune existing text. Select the text you want to revise. Click the Copilot icon in the left margin and select "Rewrite with Copilot."

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Revise existing text.

8. Review the different versions

Copilot creates a few different versions of the text. Click the arrow keys to view each version.

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Review the different versions.

9. Replace or Insert

If you find one you like, click "Replace" to replace the text you selected. 

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Click "Insert below" to insert the new draft below the existing words so you can compare the two.

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Replace or Insert.

10. Adjust the tone

Click "Regenerate" to ask Copilot to try again. Click the "Adjust Tone" button and select a different tone to generate another draft.

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Adjust the tone.

11. Turn text into a table

Sometimes you have text that would look and work better as a table. Copilot can help. Select the text you wish to turn into a table. Click the Copilot icon and select "Visualize as a Table."

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Turn text into a table.

12. Respond to the table

In response, click "Keep it" to retain the table. Click "Regenerate" to try again. Click the trash can icon to delete it. Otherwise, type a request in the text field, such as "remove the second row" or "make the last column wider."

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Respond to the table.

13. Summarize a document

Copilot Pro can provide a summary of a document with its key points. To try this, open the document you want to summarize and then click the Copilot icon on the Ribbon. 

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The right sidebar displays several prompts you can use to start your question. Click the one for "Summarize this doc."

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Summarize a document.

14. Review the summary

View the generated summary in the sidebar. If you like it as is, click the "Copy" button to copy the summary and paste it elsewhere.

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15. Revise the summary

Otherwise, choose one of the suggested questions or ask your own question to revise the summary. For example, you could tell Copilot to make the summary longer, shorter, more formal, or less formal. 

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You could also ask it to expand on one of the points in the summary or provide more details on a certain point. A specific response is then generated based on your request.

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Revise the summary.

16. Ask questions about a document

Next, you can ask specific questions about any of the content in a document. Again, click the Copilot icon to display the sidebar. In the prompt area, type and submit your question. Copilot displays the response in the sidebar. You can then ask follow-up questions as needed.

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